The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-23
JAY GoULD's NEW CAR.
The Largest and Heaviest Ever Turnet
Out of the Pullman Shops.


Until three weeks ago, says the New York
Sun, Millionaire Jay Gould mas not had the
luxury of having private railway car as
his own individual property. Heretofore
he had used the old Union Pacific car
Convoy, the property of the railway COM
pany, and reserved for the use of the presi-
dent and directors, but as matter of fact
used almost exclusively by Mr.. Gould in his
long flying leaps from one end of the CONT
nent to the other.
But the Convoy has been assigned to a
back seat now, and in its place has come
fresh from the Pullman shops and resplend-
ent in all the glory of polished woods and
glittering mirrors, the beautiful car Alta
lanta, named for Mr. Gould's feet-footed
yacht, and, like the yacht, Mr.. Gould's
private property The Atalanta was turned
out of the Pullman shops in Chicago three
weeks ago and brought to the Pennsylvania
railway station in Jersey City, where 1t now
stands. Mr.. Gould has not yet seen his new
purchase 1t was completed just after he
set out on his recent yacht voyage, and its
owner has not yet had opportunity to in
spect it.
The ATLANTA is remarkable in that it is
by half foot the longest car ever turned
out of the Pullman shops. 1t is 20 feet long
and weighs $4,000 pounds. The average
weight of the Pullman cars is Is, GOO pounds.
The ATLANTA rests on six-wheel trucks, the
wheels being of paper and 42 inches In
diameter. 1t was Mr.. Gould's direction
that special pains should be taken to give
the car strength and steadiness of motion,
and everything to this end that modern
ingenuity has devised was turned to account
in its construction.
The interior appointments of the Atlanta
are remarkable for their massive richness
and total freedom from garish display. In
one end of the car is the observation room.
This is an apartment IL feet inches IN
length by 8 feet in width. 1t is furnished
with two easy chairs and sofa upholstered
in bronze silk plush, and is covered by a
thick velvet carpet. On the sides are racks
for wraps, and over the sofa an upper
berth is tucked away so deeply into the
bulkhead as to be hardly noticeable, but it
can be let down and made into a comfort
able bed. The door out of the observation
room opens into a private bedroom, which
in turn opens by double sliding doors into a
second private bedroom. Both these rooms
are furnished with folding beds and
have private toilet rooms When
the sliding doors are thrown open the room
makes handsome parlor is feet in length
by in width. 1t is finished in satinwood
and is upholstered in blue silk plush The
observation room is furnished in mahogany.
Back of the private bed rooms comes the
dining room finished in heavily carved oak,
and upholstered, like the observation room,
in bronze silk plush. The dining room is IA
feet long by Q in width. In the centre is an
oaken extension table, and the bulkhead
separating it from the next apartment is
richly carved in open spindle work. This
next APARTMENT simply contains, one on
each side of the car, two Ordinary Pullman
sleeping berths After this apartment
comes a toilet room, a refrigerator, two
berths for porter and cook, and the kitchen.
The ends of the car are furnished with
closed platforms.